Programs

Program for Chairs of Clinical Services

• On-Site
• January 21, 2024 – February 2, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

• On-Site
• January 19 – 31, 2025
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

The Program for Chairs of Clinical Services brings together chairs of major clinical departments in teaching hospitals for intensive and systematic study of the critical leadership and management issues facing chairs, their departments, and teaching hospitals.

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AI for Health CareConcepts and Applications

• Online
• February 6 – 9, 2024

The health care industry is in a productivity crisis. For the last half century, technology, agriculture and manufacturing corporations have outpaced health care’s innovation. However, today artificial intelligence offers a tool that can help medical doctors, administrators and other stakeholders break out of this crisis. This is where AI for Health Care: Concepts and Applications comes in.

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Guidelines for Laboratory DesignHealth and Safety Considerations

• Online
• February 12 – 16, 2024

• On-Site
• June 10 – 14, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

This applied program explores the needs of diverse stakeholders to ensure laboratories are safe, free of hazards, ergonomically sound, and environmentally friendly. Guided laboratory tours ensure you leave the course able to apply what you learned to your organization’s facilities and projects.

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Conflict, Feedback, and Negotiation in Health Care

• Online
• February 27 – 29, 2024

Increase your competence as a physician leader in the critical management areas of navigating conflict, providing feedback, and skillfully approaching negotiations.

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Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals

• On-Site
• March 18 – 21, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

• Online
• September 23 – 27, 2024

Develop the management and leadership skills you need to bridge the gap between environmental health and safety goals and organizational objectives. You will gain the skills to integrate a culture of safety and sustainability into your organization.

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Financial Management in Health Care for Non-Financial Managers

• Online
• March 26 – 28, 2024

Increase your financial literacy as a physician leader. In this course, you will learn financial management and control, and how to interact more effectively with finance personnel.

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Principles and Practice of Clinical Research

• Mix
• March 28, 2024 – December 13, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

• PPCR 3-Day Advanced Statistical Workshop
• On-Site
• July 29 – 31, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

• PPCR Research Manuscript Writing Workshop
• On-Site
• August 1 – 2, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

• PPCR 5-Day Immersion Course
• On-Site
• December 9 – 13, 2024
• Praia do Forte, Bahia, Brazil at Tivoli Ecoresort Praia do Forte

This program explores clinical research (including research basics, statistical methods, data collection, and study design) to ensure that participants can conduct clinical trials in an effective manner. By participating, you will become a more efficient and effective clinical researcher.

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Leadership Strategies for Evolving Health Care Executives

• On-Site
• April 1 – 5, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

Develop the health care leadership skills you need to achieve individual and organizational objectives. You will gain skills to lead more effectively, including conflict resolution, operational analysis, employee management, and quality management.

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Women on BoardsGetting On and Adding Value

• On-Site
• April 18 – 19, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

This program will put you on the path towards attaining a board position in health care and related industries. You will gain the competencies you need to succeed at being a first-rate board member, prepare for the challenges you will face, and gain direction, tools, and approaches for attaining a seat on a board of directors.

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Innovation with AI in Health Care

• Online
• May 7 – 10, 2024

Innovation with AI in Health Care will help leaders of health care organizations develop the skills needed to realize the value of AI in health care and advance their careers through demonstrating leadership in digital transformation of health care. It also brings together a diverse community of leaders from the technical, clinical, and business worlds.

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Leading in Health SystemsActivating Transformational Change

• On-Site
• May 15 – 17, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

Initiate and implement change in health care by leveraging meta-leadership. You will explore both meta-leadership concepts and the ‘Walk in the Woods’ methodology, a proven method for interest-based negotiation.

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Health Care Quality ImprovementFrom Design to Implementation

• Online
• June 3 – 13, 2024

Health care leaders and professionals want to undertake improvement projects in their practice or organization, and many don’t know where to begin, or how to analyze and properly gauge their successes. Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation will use a real case study to take participants through the journey of identifying, planning, measuring, and creating process changes that will lead to results.

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Emerging Women Executives in Health Care

• On-Site
• June 4 – 7, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

This leadership development program focused on women provides you with the skills to lead complex health care organizations. Participating in this course will help you bridge the gaps in your understanding, strategies, and skills, and prepare you for the next stage in your career.

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Comprehensive Industrial HygieneFundamentals for Health and Safety Professionals

• Online
• July 15 – 19, 2024

Improve employee health, safety, and security with applied industrial hygiene skills. You will benefit from a comprehensive introduction to industrial hygiene and gain skills to protect employees from workplace environmental hazards.

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In-Place Filter Testing Workshop

• On-Site
• July 22 – 26, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

Prepare to test and certify systems containing HEPA filtration and gas adsorption systems. Learn to operate testing equipment unique to these activities and gain an understanding of regulations associated with nuclear air- and gas-cleaning activities.

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Benefit-Cost AnalysisValuing Life and Health

• Online
• September 16 – 20, 2024

Learn directly from one of Harvard’s experts on benefit-cost analysis, who will teach you the advantages and limitations of this method, improving your ability to evaluate, interpret, and use the results.

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Applied Risk Communication for the 21st Century

• Online
• September 16 – 20, 2024

This program will provide state-of-the-science knowledge on designing effective risk communication messages to improve communication, increase trust in your organization, reduce public anxiety about an issue, and help key stakeholders make better decisions.

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Measurement, Design, and Analysis Methods for Health Outcomes Research

• Online
• September 23 – 27, 2024

You will learn to design, implement, and analyze health outcomes studies, use outcomes research data for clinical decision making, health care planning, and technology development, and understand the statistical methods used in this research.

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Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers

• On-Site
• October 13 – 25, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

• On-Site
• November 3 – 15, 2024
• Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA

Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers brings together physicians in administrative positions in academic health centers, who lead a clinical division and report directly to the chair of their department, for intensive and systematic study of the critical leadership and management issues facing academic health centers.

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Leadership Development to Advance Equity in Health Care

• Online
• November 5 – 8, 2024

Traditional medical education lacks training on how the health care system is influenced by racism and how outdated policies perpetuate disparities. This program will teach you how to confront and remediate unfair practices and advance health equity in your community or practice.

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Mental Health Care Peer Learning Collaborative

The Mental Health Care Peer Collaborative is available to participants who have completed Foundations of Mental Health Care and Scaling Up Mental Health Care Services. This third course, Mental Health Care Peer Learning Collaborative is a monthly session with the Program Directors and your peers, completing a yearlong program.

Scaling Up Mental Health Care Services

Scaling Up Mental Health Care Services is focused on broadening the support of those who need mental health care services by giving current and future health care leaders the core skills needed to drive change in their organizations.

Foundations of Mental Health Care

This program will focus on understanding the mental health needs of diverse populations, across the life course, from relatively healthy to those who are ill, and from vulnerable groups to the privileged.

The International Leadership Development Program for Physicians

This program provides focused training in leadership and management, focused on the clinical and operational challenges senior physicians face as executives. By participating in this program, physicians from around the world will develop skills to be more effective and efficient institutional leaders.

Health Care Project Management

This program drives meaningful growth in project leadership abilities for clinicians, administrators and operations professionals in health care settings. It covers project leadership, assessment, planning, initiation, execution, quality control, team-building, management, conflict resolution and communication with stakeholders.

Environmental Health Risk

Learn to assess the human health risks posed by exposure to environmental hazards including chemicals, pollution, and contaminated food. Explore the basics of health risk assessment and discuss applications of risk assessment to diverse problems.

Radiological Emergency Planning

You will gain skills to effectively plan for and respond to radiological emergencies as well as the ability to communicate effectively with the public during a crisis.

Work Health, and Well-being

This applied program provides the knowledge necessary to integrate siloed occupational health, health promotion, and health protection programs to improve working conditions, minimize work-related injuries and illnesses, and reduce employee health care-related costs.